British weather

[davewitley]

On the main list, Geoff Bannister wrote:

> I really cannot subscribe to Mandy's suggestion that our weather 
> stinks. I walk my dogs 4-5 miles a day and very rarely do I get 
> really wet. Even yesterday, with the gales battering our house (we 
> face west up the Bistol Channel) I was still able to get out and 
> dodge the showers and stay dry; where we live, we can usually 
> forecast the weather for the next couple of hours just by watching 
> the sky and the wind.

There is something about this paean to our weather that leaves me 
feeling that people aren't going to be falling over one another to 
visit our shores.

Perhaps the English Tourist Board could adopt the slogan: "Come to 
England, where the weather is only moderately uncomfortable".

Once, one of our cats wanted to go outside but, when we opened the 
back door he was disconcerted to see it was raining, and promptly 
went to the front door to see if conditions were any better there.  
He was disappointed on that occasion, but I feel he had the right 
idea.

David, who thinks *anyone* can forecast the weather for a couple of 
hours - it's getting it right that's the hard part